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A contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science who are seeking to undercut sex traffickers by developing online tools that target a key vulnerability: the need to advertise.The three-year, $3.6 million CMU effort will develop machine learning algorithms for domain-specific indexing and search, and will build on existing efforts by CMU researchers to analyze ads for sex services posted to websites.

At the invitation of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Carnegie Mellon's John R. Anderson will participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Friday, Jan. 23, in Washington, D.C.

PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's latest robot is called Snake Monster; however, with six legs, it looks more like an insect than a snake. But it really doesn't matter what you call it, says its inventor, Howie Choset — the whole point of the project is to make modular robots that can easily be reconfigured to meet a user's needs.

Lorrie Faith Cranor, a professor in the Institute for Software Research and director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab, is one of 47 computer scientists named as 2014 fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery.

A University of Alberta research group headed by SCS alumnus Michael Bowling reports in the January 9 issue of Science that it has essentially solved the game of two-player limit Texas Hold'em poker, which CMU's Tuomas Sandholm says marks a significant milestone in solving imperfect-information games.

Forbes has cited Mehdi Samadi, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, as one of its "30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Enterprise Technology," and Julia Schwarz, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of its "30 Under 30 in Science."

Like many husbands, Henry Kang often found himself pressed into service as his wife's fashion adviser. "What can I wear with this?" his wife, Shawna, would ask each morning. Though his Ph.D. training in the School of Computer Science left him perhaps better prepared to provide coding advice, he nevertheless managed to help her.

Alex Waibel and Howie Choset of the School of Computer Science and Diana Marculescu of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have been named 2015 IEEE Fellows in recognition of their technological contributions to society.

The category on the Dec. 18 episode of "Jeopardy!" was "U.S. News & World Report Best of 2014," and the question to the $1,000 answer was obvious.Answer: When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field.Question: What is Carnegie Mellon University?(Check out the video clip below.)It was perhaps the easiest $1,000 that contestant ever won. CMU's Ph.D. program in computer science is consistently ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report.

PITTSBURGH—The Google Lunar XPRIZE announced today that Andy, a four-wheeled lunar rover designed and built by Carnegie Mellon University, is the winner of a Milestone Prize for mobility after judges concluded it is thus far the only robot among the competing teams to meet development benchmarks for flight readiness.